Age Of Chivalry - Hussite Warriors With Polearms X 8

This set includes:

8 Hussite Warriors with polearms, monopose

- All models are supplied both Pre-Supported and Unsupported, in 28mm scale, in STLs and LYS files. - 

Age of Chivalry (Early 15th century) - Hussite Warriors with Polearms

The Hussite armies were largely composed of peasants and townsmen, so their weapons often came from the tools of daily life. Among these, polearms were especially important. Farmers’ implements such as pitchforks and ploughshares were reshaped into battlefield weapons, while scythes were re-shafted to serve as long, cutting blades. The most iconic Hussite weapon was the flail, originally used for threshing grain. Hussite smiths strengthened it with iron bands or spikes, turning it into a brutal and practical weapon. Men who had spent their lives working the fields now used the same motion to strike down armoured opponents, often from behind the protective walls of war wagons.

Other polearms included spiked morning stars on long shafts, bills with hooks and blades for cutting and pulling riders from their saddles, and spear-like weapons of varying lengths. Some resembled early forms of the Swiss halberd, created by modifying plough blades into thrusting and chopping heads. The awlpike, a long spike with a protective handguard, was also common, designed to pierce armour or drag mounted knights to the ground.

Although most Hussite infantry were only lightly armoured, scavenged equipment gradually spread through the ranks as victories mounted. Helmets such as kettle hats, simple caps, or sometimes bascinets offered head protection, while body armour ranged from padded jackets to mail and the occasional breastplate. Polearms, especially the flail, gave these lightly equipped peasants the ability to stand against heavily armoured crusaders, and their systematic deployment in wagon forts—where ordinances sometimes required fourteen flailmen and several halberdiers per wagon—made them the most important feature of Hussite warfare.